Fair point. However, wouldn't their family prefer them not to be so "selfless" and stick around? A person's life is not wholly their own.
That's where the cowardice and selfishness comes in. Face your demons for yourself and your family, or, bail out and leave those you supposedly loved to deal with the aftermath for the rest of their lives.
Not sure that I agree that a person's life is not solely their own. You may have a point in cases where people choose to have a relationship and have kids. Someone who has not done that owes duck all to anyone.
If you have children of course your life is not your own, they are your dependants, even when they grow up. Never been depressed I suppose but you must be in some mad frame of mind to rope it, I know a few people who have and the one after the last etc has seen what it does to the family. Hard one to call but it's hardly cowardice.
Mother? Father? Sisters? Brothers? Children? Cousins? Aunts? Uncles? Friends? All of these people are owed a part of your life. They care about you. If that's not the case then I'll help ye throw yerself off the nearest bridge and ye can claim to be right as ye plummet to yer death.
Get tae ****. Am no doin that again. I got sacked after a couple of days for some as yet unexplained reason.
Some people on the other hand might say that a mentally ill person taking their own life is selfless rather than selfish. Shock and grief passes. A lifetime of bringing your family down doesn't. Two sides and all that.
You obviously missed the but where I said if you didn't have kids. Friends aside any family member has come into your life with you having no choice. Sure they may be affected but that's by the by. You owe them nothing as you never chose to be with them
